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"Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; 1I am the first, and I am the last.
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My hand 2laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand 3spread out the heavens; 4when I call to them, they stand forth together.
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"Assemble, all of you, and listen! 5Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; 6he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against 7the Chaldeans.
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8I, even I, have spoken and called him; I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
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9Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now 10the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit.
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Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
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11Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! 12Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
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13your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me."
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14Go out from Babylon, flee from 15Chaldea, declare this 16with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, 17"The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!"
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18They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; 19he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed out.
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20"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."